Caldor Fire rebuild continues, three years after it tore through El Dorado County
Grizzly Flats was hit the hardest, with two-thirds of the community being destroyed. The town is still trying to rebuild.
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Grizzly Flats was hit the hardest, with two-thirds of the community being destroyed. The town is still trying to rebuild.
More help is on the way for certain El Dorado County property owners still displaced by the 2021 Caldor Fire.
A former Grizzly Flats resident received a shocking notice this week that her insurance is being invoiced for debris removal related to the Caldor Fire, which decimated the El Dorado County town in 2021.
Firearm-related charges were dismissed this week against one of the two men arrested in connection to the Caldor Fire that tore through El Dorado County in 2021, prosecutors said Thursday.
Community members in El Dorado County are still rebuilding from the Caldor Fire, which destroyed Grizzly Flats in August 2021.
Caldor Fire survivors are looking to sue the U.S. Forest Service, claiming they were negligent in protecting Grizzly Flats from destruction.
Nearly two and a half years after the Caldor Fire, Grizzly Flats still has not been able to rebuild the elementary school it lost.
A series of strong storms are hitting Northern California this week causing concerns for communities with burn scars from recent fires.
A judge ruled there is insufficient evidence to take the father and son suspected of recklessly starting the Caldor Fire to trial, the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office confirmed.
August 14 will mark two years since the Caldor Fire broke out just east of Omo Ranch Road and south of the community of Grizzly Flats. Just days after it started, it destroyed the gold rush town of Grizzly Flats in less than 15 minutes.
August 14 will mark two years since the Caldor Fire broke out just east of Omo Ranch Road and south of the community of Grizzly Flats. Just days after it started, it destroyed the gold rush town of Grizzly Flats in less than 15 minutes.
Caldor Fire victims are filing claims against the U.S. Forest Service that they say failed to protect Grizzly Flats.
Cal Fire made an aggressive attack to keep a vegetation fire from spreading to nearby homes in El Dorado County on Sunday. It broke out at around 1:30 p.m. in the area of Rontree Lane and Fairplay Road in Somerset.
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for parts of several counties south of South Lake Tahoe on Thursday.
Nearly two years later, communities in the Caldor Fire burn scar are still rebuilding what they once lost.
It's one of the largest terrain changes for a ski resort in the U.S. and Sierra-At-Tahoe is learning on the fly.
One of Tahoe's best-known ski resorts is opening again after the Caldor Fire ravaged the resort last year. They've essentially had to rebuild the entire resort in a single year.
Grizzly Flats had stood in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California since 1851. Lumber was the economic backbone of the region for decades. But it took only 15 minutes one night last August for nea of the town to be destroyed, engulfed by the Caldor Fire that had roared out of the Eldorado National Forest.
"In our opinion, they did nothing to put this fire out," Grizzly Flats, California, resident Candance Tyler told Bill Whitaker about the U.S. Forest Service response.
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The resort says--it's completed the first phase of its recovery efforts in the West Bowl area, which saw the worst damage. Some 14,000 burned and damaged trees are being removed. They're now focusing on the east side of the mountain.
Today, the city of Galt payed tribute to a police officer who was hit and killed by a drunk driver while on the way to help with he Caldor Fire.
In the decade leading to the Caldor Fire, the agency treated 1,000 acres in the wildland-urban interface.
While many people are rebuilding, there have been lessons learned in the efforts to suppress flames while mitigating wildfires. The U.S. Forest Service has multiple fuel-reduction treatments either in the works or about to start in the Lake Tahoe Basin. One that looks interesting is the Caldor Restoration Project.
Pollock Pines was under threat and had to evacuate due to the Caldor Fire. The wildfire burned for nearly 70 days. Thousands of fires were saved, in part, due to work done ten years before, according to the USFS.
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